Russell Crowe’s comments were aired during the AACTA Awards in Sydney.

What did Russell Crowe say about sodomy?

Russell Crowe caused controversy after making a joke about “sodomy” with Jacqueline

He made the comment on stage as a means to highlight the need for “sensitivity” in the film industry at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards, in Sydney.

The 53-year-old apparently laughed as he told the joke, and said: “I was sodomising Jacqueline McKenzie on the set of Romper Stomper. I didn’t actually intend to do that.

“I was trying to keep my bits away from her bits, and she’s been given one of those pieces of elastic that the girls get when you do those scenes, which protects them from all things, and my bits and pieces were in a little canvas sack with a drawstring.

And it was actually my desire to keep the bits apart. It wasn’t until the opening night of the film that it was pointed out by none other than Jackie McKenzie’s beautiful late mother that we were in fact, in her mind, engaged in sodomy.